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Date:      Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:42:24 +0000
From:      Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org>
To:        Leslie Jensen <leslie@eskk.nu>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Some thoughts about upgrading from 8.3 to 9.1
Message-ID:  <50A25C50.3050704@qeng-ho.org>
In-Reply-To: <50A25768.9040208@qeng-ho.org>
References:  <50A2445F.7040602@eskk.nu> <50A25768.9040208@qeng-ho.org>

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On 11/13/12 14:21, Arthur Chance wrote:

Oops, sent this off too quickly.

> I wrote that. It's only relevant if you have recent disks with 4k
> hardware blocks. If you have, you ought to use 4k/16k filesystems
> whatever your OS rev.

That should be 4k/32k. As "man newfs" says:

The optimal block:fragment ratio is 8:1.  Other ratios are possible, but 
are not recommended, and may produce poor results.




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